Doctor gives views for Cancer Research UK on the dangerous links between obesity and cancer
. READ MORE: Fat men offered £400 to slim in NHS 's 'Game of Stones' trialMillions more Britons could be labelled obese in a proposed major shake-up of the body-mass-index classification system.
Under the BMI system, a score of 18.5 to 25 is healthy. A score of 25 to 29 counts as overweight, and 30-plus means a person is obese, the stage at which chances of illness rocket They said 40-plus bodies have an increased fat build-up around the waist that, combined with age-related muscle decline, means there is no overall change in total weight.
However, when the researchers used high-tech scans to measure their actual percentage of body fat, 71 per cent of men and 64 per cent of women were assessed as obese. Professor Antonino De Lorenzo, co-author and an expert in biomedicine from the University of Rome, added: 'If we continue to use the WHO standard for obesity screening, we will miss many middle-aged and older adults who are at risk for obesity-related diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers.
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